Sun's recently posted an alpha of J2ME Web Services
<http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr172/index.html>
This spec defines a subset of JAXP, SAX, and XML which is only
suitable for processing SOAP messages. It is not suitable for generic
XML processing. Among other sins, it permits parsers to throw a
SAXParseException when encountering a document type declaration, and
to not support non-predefined entity references.
Note that although the spec is focused on web services, it does
define an official XML API for J2ME that will be used for parsing
documents other than SOAP messages. In other words, SOAP's decision
to forbid the internal DTD subset is now being propagated into other
domains. Fortunately the JSR-172 subset still allows processing
instructions.
I did not recognize any of the names in the expert group. It is not
clear if there is any real XML expert in the group who actually
understands XML at a deep level. However, if passed unfixed this spec
and resulting implementations will be seen as normative by numerous
other programmers who don't read W3C recommendations or hang out on
xml-dev.
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